Matthew Tuerk

It can be.

It also turns you into like, I have given...

tours of my city to foreign press every country in the world reporters that they go to the diner in Pennsylvania right that's the classic trope exactly yeah then so I mean it's it's nice to be the center of attention yeah that way but in the like in the politicians kind of want to make you happy but practically speaking you know there's

As a mayor, your job is to just meet the needs of your residents, right?

That's what you dial in on.

And so whatever they're doing nationally, you're just worried about residents.

I think that from the mayor's perspective, I probably am more in that kind of romantic world, right?

Like where we're just kind of like, yeah, we envision a world in which people will always be putting their hands on stuff, right?

One way or another.

And

When you get into a higher technology where, like, we already have robots doing, like, precision surgery, presumably some of the precision manufacturing is going to be better done with a robotic hand than the steady hand or strong back of somebody on a line.

I do think that as you, like, the...

There's still... And this is a vibe that I'm starting to get.

Mayors tend to pick up, like... Because we're on the ground.

We start to hear the vibes before they become national vibes.

But I think that there's a very strong... At least in my city and some other cities that I've visited, there's, like, a strong, like, handmade or, like, a rejection of the robots and AI, whether it's art or, like, the produced goods.

I don't know if anybody...

I don't know what the logical end to that is, but I think there's, on the consumer side, there's still a desire.

I think people romanticize some of the product, right?

And they'd rather have something that people have made on the jobs side of it.